{"id":124128,"date":"2021-06-22T18:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/could-mitochondria-be-the-key-to-a-healthy-brain"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:22:39","slug":"could-mitochondria-be-the-key-to-a-healthy-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/could-mitochondria-be-the-key-to-a-healthy-brain","title":{"rendered":"Could mitochondria be the key to a healthy brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIR2weKk3gg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n<p>By Diana Kwon.<\/p>\n<p>Long before the earliest animals swam through the water-covered surface of Earth\u2019s ancient past, one of the most important encounters in the history of life took place. A primitive bacterium was engulfed by our oldest ancestor \u2014 a solo, free-floating cell. The two fused to form a mutually beneficial relationship that has lasted more than a billion years, with the latter providing a safe, comfortable home and the former becoming a powerhouse, fueling the processes necessary to maintain life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. By Diana Kwon. Long before the earliest animals swam through the water-covered surface of Earth\u2019s ancient past, one of the most important encounters in the history of life took place. A primitive bacterium was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}